A video clip spread on social media platforms showing Israeli soldiers mocking and tampering with the clothes of children from Gaza inside a house in the Jabalia refugee camp. In the video, an Israeli soldier appears carrying a small pink dress that belonged to a girl and trying to wear it, while his colleagues who are lying in the house that its residents abandoned due to the bombing watch.
Since the beginning of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, children have appeared to be a major target of the occupation, according to statistics showing a rise in the number of child martyrs. On Tuesday morning, Palestinian photographer Muhammad Al-Sharif published a video clip of the child Abdul Rahman Qassem, who was martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing on the Jabalia camp, while he was playing with his skates.
The picture of the child Abdul Rahman, wearing skate shoes, brings to mind the scene of the child Tala Abu Ajwa, who was killed by the occupation army in September 2024, while wearing skate shoes in the streets of Gaza. Journalist Anas Al-Sharif then published a video documenting the moments of little Tala.
In solidarity with the children of Gaza
Last September, the Dutch city of Rotterdam witnessed an event to draw attention to the tragedy of the children of Gaza in light of the Israeli attacks, by displaying 16,000 pairs of small shoes in Schweiburg Square.
The Dutch “Plant an Olive Tree” Foundation supervised the organization of the event in the middle of Schweiburg Square in Rotterdam to commemorate the children killed by Israel.
In reference to the number of martyred children, the Foundation placed more than 16,000 pairs of small shoes in the square. The names and ages of thousands of children killed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza were also read.
Jabalia is under bombardment
On the 375th day of the aggression against Gaza, Israel continued to launch its raids on the besieged Strip, demolishing operations and intensive bombing of the Jabalia area for the 11th day in a row. The occupation army has been launching a ground attack on the northern Gaza Strip for days, concentrated in the areas of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and the Jabalia camp, in an attempt to empty those areas of population.
On the other hand, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced on Tuesday that its fighters were able to detonate an explosive device against an occupation force east of the city of Rafah, while the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that it had targeted a tank and bombed occupation soldiers and vehicles in Jabalia.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said that it detonated a “barrel bomb in a special Zionist force, killing and wounding its members” near the Al-Rayyan area, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
A number of volunteer foreign doctors in the Gaza Strip revealed since the Israeli aggression on the seventh of last October that the Israeli occupation forces have specifically targeted, since the beginning of the war, children. This is due to the numbers of martyrs and wounded who were arriving at hospitals, as the large number of martyrs were children. In the Gaza Strip.
The occupation army has continued its war on Gaza since last October 7, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over the besieged Strip.